eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The workshops are topic-specific and designed to help educators teach about renewable energy during distance and hybrid learning. Workshops will start with background on the topic followed by introducing activities for the classroom to engage students in dynamic, hands-on learning. Participants can register here.

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APRIL 1, 2021

Instead of just looking at test scores and saying there’s an equity issue, leaders need to dig down into each group of students and determine why they’re not meeting their learning goals. Make learning collective. Invite a diverse group to analyze the problems. It will take time for staff to recognize and change their faulty practices.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2015

Statistics Outgrows All Other STEM Fields From 2010-2013. The ASA analyzed data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on 160 STEM bachelor’s degree categories granted by U.S. FASTEST-GROWING STEM UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES 2010–2013. From a press release. public and nonprofit colleges and universities.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

David Lockhart started teaching high school history in 2004. He had to find that thing that made his lessons stand out, and he saw it with technology. For the last four years, he has been an instructional technologist who coaches, trains, and speaks full time.

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techlearning

MARCH 12, 2018

The LIVE event, “ Play Ball: The Science Behind Sports Turf Management ,” will engage middle school students with an exclusive look at the scientific practices and innovative technologies used in sports turf management, showing the important role soil science plays in the world of sports. “We

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2014

My father was an elementary principal for 30 years and I always admired how he was able to inspire his staff to focus on student learning. Image Credit: [link] My second reason for wanting to become an administrator early on in my career stemmed from the fact that I wanted to help as many students as possible.

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N2Y

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Other kids are uniquely challenged with a disability that impacts their learning. They may need an Individualized Education Program (IEP) or 504 plan to address their learning needs. Regardless, it is reasonable to assume there are twice-exceptional students with unique learning needs in every school. What about IDEA?

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

This story on STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. The day after the launch, for example, Espino and classmate Jaime Sanchez were learning Python programming through Udacity, an online education platform that offers “nanodegrees.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In mission statements across the country, references to personalized learning abound, hanging proudly from schoolhouse walls. We’ve become a leader in STEM Education by changing the way we structure schools. The district was the first in the state to open STEM Academies as part of their general public-school program.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

The day after the launch, for example, Espino and classmate Jaime Sanchez were learning Python programming through Udacity, an online education platform that offers “nanodegrees.” For example, the Silicon Valley Education Foundation’s summer program, Elevate Math, is raising algebra readiness, a critical first step on the STEM success track.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. During the first semester, he taught them about artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data. Subscribe today!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

When it first opened its doors in 2004 as a part of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the organization took a leading role in opening charter schools across the city—130 of them, to be exact. Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

My mentor and collaborator, Seymour Papert, was a brilliant mathematician, a distinguished computer scientist, an innovative learning theorist, a humanitarian and a visionary for technology-based education change to empower every children. While a visionary, he is also very much a realist. Seymour’s genius goes far beyond the academic.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Our journey began when we conducted an extensive literature review at the outset of the project (Bruce, Flynn, & Moss, 2012) and learned about the crucial importance of spatial reasoning. Spatial thinking is an important predictor of achievement in STEM careers. Bruce, Bev Caswell, Tara Flynn, and Zachary Hawes. Education matters!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

To some, this might sound like little more than classic “Mean Girls” behavior, as immortalized in the 2004 cult teen flick, but it can include mean boys, too. Introduce modern technology, and interactions can quickly grow from mischievous to malicious. Related: Learning more outside of the classroom than in.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since then, the robotics program has overcome their fair share of obstacles, including nearby factories shutting and decreased funding for their program, while working hard to transform culture in their school and build leaders in STEM. The skills they learn through robotics are so translatable; it really isn’t about the robots.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2016

At the turn of the 21st century, public interest in games as learning tools took hold. In the eyes of digital game-based learning proponents, the general public and today’s teachers finally understood something that students and educational researchers knew all along. The Basics of Digital Game-Based Learning. Definitions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2021

essential in helping solve problems for parents and helping schools,” says Johany Bobadilla, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who has run her own program in Boston since 2004. Contreras spent three years learning the business from the proprietors of Teddy Bears?—?the I’m very bad with technology,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. lets them play learning games on the computer and “sometimes she gives us her phone,” King said. “We We get to do fun things,” Kaiden said, chewing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

“In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. ” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. Mourn and Organize. So many losses.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

This talk was delivered at MIT for Justin Reich’s Comparative Media Studies class “Learning, Media, and Technology.” I recognize that this class is called “Learning, Media, and Technology.” ” But I’m really not interested in “learning” per se.

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